Examining Pseudo Race IQ Theories (Part 1) By Brother Saye

In America, you have a large portion of the population who see themselves as conservative. In recent years, terms like, “Alt-Right” and “Tea Party Patriot,” are embraced by many who relate to right wing politics. There are two major arguments often heralded by these individuals, which I would like to examine.

Why do conservative politicians, and their supporters, often complain about government spending allocated towards job training and educational programs, in low income communities? There is also the issue of denouncing "Affirmative Action" as reverse discrimination. This is part one of multiple articles that will explain the root cause of these complaints.

Many White nationalists and suspected White supremacists do not believe that a Black person with a college degree deserves the same merit as White person with a college degree. They believe Whites, in general, test better than 84% of the Black population. They believe this is displayed in the workplace and throughout life. They argue that Whites with higher cognitive intelligence, who are not financially well off, are at a major disadvantage of being left behind and out of the equation; due to affirmative action. From their perspective, affirmative action selects Blacks and Latino’s with lower cognitive intelligence over White students who are smarter and more intelligent.

The reason conservative politicians don't support social programs is because they see it as wasting money. They see most Blacks as people with a low IQ. They are under the assumption, that Blacks “in general” have an IQ of 85 and below. They figure, social and work programs will not work, because the people they are created to assist are just too stupid to comprehend the training, based on their lack of cognitive intelligence. They back this idea from reading books like "The Bell Curve" by Charles Murray. Their logic on average is that Blacks only test better than 16% of the White population. Many will not say this publicly, but these are the views that help them govern, and make social & political decisions.

Along with the views shared above, many in the dominate society embrace the following perspectives below.

1) Their analysis is that Ashkenazi Jews “on average” have the highest IQ around 110-115, East Asians at 105, Whites follow at 100, Hispanics at 89, Western & American Blacks at 85, and Black Africans at 70.

2) They argue that there are 38 million Blacks in America, and that around 100,000 Blacks Americans have a 125 IQ or higher. They claim this creates an illusion that Blacks share the same cognitive intelligence on average as Whites. Their argument is that an overwhelming majority of Black Americans have a lower cognitive intelligence. (85 IQ)

3) They argue that “circumstantial” evidence shows that the cognitive elite are passing people by with limited cognitive abilities, and that people who are intellectually challenged, “Blacks,” would be better off in a separate more accommodating society.

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4) They are tired of liberal politicians who continue to give incentives to people “Blacks” who are intellectually challenged, to produce more children, when they should actually be creating incentives for people with higher cognitive intelligence, to reproduce instead.

Who’s promoting pseudo IQ race theories?

Nicholas Wade

Nicholas Wade’s book, A Troublesome Inheritance, is only the latest in a long line of works arguing that humans can be divided into discrete races, and that between those races, there are differences in behavior, temperament, intelligence, and even political and economic structures. Although the specifics of the arguments change, what remains constant is the idea that white people of European descent are inherently smarter, better, more “civilized” than members of other races, especially black Africans and their descendants. Wade’s work is no exception. - SPLC

Jared Taylor @jartaylor

He is the founder of the New Century Foundation and edited its now discontinued American Renaissance magazine, which, despite its pseudo-academic polish, regularly publishes proponents of eugenics and blatant anti-black and anti-Latino racists. The magazine was replaced by a lively website, Amren.com. Taylor also hosts a conference every year (it was formerly biannual) where racist intellectuals rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists. - SPLC

Linda Gottfredson

Following a long tradition of scientific racism, Gottfredson argues that racial inequality, especially in employment, is the direct result of genetic racial differences in intelligence. Relying heavily on money obtained from the white nationalist Pioneer Fund, Gottfredson has worked tirelessly to oppose any and all efforts to reduce racial inequality in both in the workplace and in society as a whole. - SPLC

Stefan Molyneux @StefanMolyneux

Charles Murray @Charles Murray

According to Murray, disadvantaged groups are disadvantaged because, on average, they cannot compete with white men, who are intellectually, psychologically and morally superior. Murray advocates the total elimination of the welfare state, affirmative action and the Department of Education, arguing that public policy cannot overcome the innate deficiencies that cause unequal social and educational outcomes. - SPLC

Richard Lynn

For 50 years, Richard Lynn has been at the forefront of scientific racism. An unapologetic eugenicist, Lynn uses his authority as professor (emeritus) of psychology at the University of Ulster to argue for the genetic inferiority of non-white people. Lynn believes that IQ tests can be used to determine the worth of groups of people, especially racial groups and nations. The wealth and power of nations, according to Lynn, is due to their racial intelligence and “homogeneity” (or “purity”). He argues that the nations with the highest IQs must subjugate or eliminate the lower-IQ groups within their borders in order to preserve their dominance. - SPLC

Wickliffe Draper (August 9, 1891 – 1972) was an American multimillionaire and philanthropist. He was an ardent eugenicist and lifelong advocate of strict racial segregation. In 1937, he founded the Pioneer Fund, a registered charitable organization established to provide scholarships for descendants of original white American settlers and to support research into heredity and eugenics; he later became its principal benefactor. - Wikipedia

Pioneer Fund started in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper. The Pioneer Fund's original mandate was to pursue "race betterment" by promoting the genetic stock of those "deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution." – SPLC

Nearly all the research that Murray and Herrnstein relied on for their central claims about race and IQ was funded by the Pioneer Fund, described by the London Sunday Telegraph (3/12/89) as a “neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics.” The fund’s mission is to promote eugenics, a philosophy that maintains that “genetically unfit” individuals or races are a threat to society. – FAIR 1995

The Bell Curve cites as its primary sources for this assertion, R. Travis Osborne, Frank C.J. McGurk and Audrey Shuey — all recipients of Pioneer Fund grants. Osborne, who has received almost $400,000 from Pioneer, used his “research” into black genetic inferiority to argue for the restoration of school segregation. (Newsday, 11/9/94)

Richard Lynn has received at least $325,000 from the Pioneer Fund.

(Rolling Stone, 10/20/94)

The Bell Curve is connected to the anti-immigrant movement. The Federation for American Immigration Reform received more than $1 million from the Pioneer Fund - getting the organization off the ground. (See Extra! 7-8/93.)

Pioneer Fund also funded the American Immigration Control Foundation; a White nationalist’s organization, whose work is cited by Murray and Herrnstein.

“The United States already has policies that inadvertently social-engineer who has babies and it is encouraging the wrong women ... We urge that these policies, represented by the extensive network of cash and services for low-income women who have babies, be ended.” - The Bell Curve

What is Eugenics?

Eugenics is a selective way of improving the genetic quality of the human population. The exact definition of eugenics is not consensus. Frederick Osborn's definition is as a social philosophy—that is, a philosophy with implications for social order. FYI - This definition is not universally accepted.

Osborn advocated for higher rates of sexual reproduction among people with desired traits (positive eugenics), or reduced rates of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative eugenics). Alternatively, gene selection rather than "people selection" has recently been made possible through advances in genome editing. – Wikipedia

What is IQ?

IQ, or intelligence quotient, is a compiled score from several standardized tests, created to assess human intelligence.

History

1908,
H.H. Goddard, a champion of the eugenics movement, found utility in mental
testing as a way to evidence the superiority of the white race. After studying
abroad, Goddard brought the Binet -Simon Scale to the United States and
translated it into English. Following Goddard in the U.S. mental testing
movement was Lewis Terman, who took the Simon-Binet Scale and standardized it
using a large American sample. The new Stanford-Binet scale was no longer used
solely for advocating education for all children, as was Binet's objective. - Terman, L., Lyman, G., Ordahl, G.,
Ordahl, L., Galbreath, N., & Talbert, W. (1916). The Stanford Revision and
Extension of the Binet-Simon Scale for Measuring Intelligence. Baltimore:
Warwick & York (Wikipedia)

Written
by Brother Saye
Twitter: @Sayetaryor

Alfred
Binet (July 8, 1857 – October 18, 1911) was a French psychologist who invented
the first practical IQ test, “The Binet-Simon Test.” Binet stressed the
remarkable diversity of intelligence and the subsequent need to study it using
qualitative, as opposed to quantitative, measures. Binet also stressed that
intellectual development progressed at variable rates and could be influenced
by the environment; therefore, intelligence was not based solely on genetics,
was malleable rather than fixed, and could only be found in children with
comparable backgrounds - Siegler, 1992 (Wikipedia)

Lewis
Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American
psychologist, noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th
century at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is best known for his
revision of the Stanford-Binet IQ test and for initiating the longitudinal
study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius. He was a
prominent eugenicist and was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation. He
also served as president of the American Psychological Association. - Sears, R. R. (1957). L. M. Terman, pioneer
in mental measurement. Science, 125, 978-979. doi:10.1126/science.125.3255.978 (Wikipedia)